When the day was about to dawn, the queen finally woke up, and although the imperial doctors knew that this was a return to light, they still secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

The emperor sat on the edge of the bed, and Xiyin and Li Shangxuan knelt on the ground.

Seeing the queen's beauty stretching out her hand towards her, Xiyin pulled Li Shangxuan forward and held it.

"In the future, the two of you will depend on each other for your life. ”

The queen's face was no longer pale, and even her cheeks were flushed with a hint of redness, Xiyin knew that it was because the deadline was approaching, and she choked in her throat and couldn't speak, so she could only nod.

The queen let go of the hand holding them with reluctance, and her eyes were reluctant.

"Mother!"

Li Shangxuan's voice trembled, and the queen laboriously reached out and patted him on the shoulder, and a smile tugged at the corner of her mouth

"Ah Xuan, you are a man, you have to be strong, and you have to protect your sister. ”

Li Shangxuan nodded, the tears that he had been holding back could no longer be restrained, and he gritted his teeth and lowered his head and cried.

Seeing this, Xiyin shook Li Shangxuan's hand that was hidden under his sleeve and clenched into a fist.

"Your Majesty, can you promise me? The queen shifted her gaze and slowly fell on the man who didn't say a word.

"In the future, unless Qingguo Gong conspires against him, he can't be touched. ”

The empress was afraid that the emperor would not agree, so she continued

"Ah Xuan can't live without his family, now he and Xiao Tai are the same age when they leave, I don't blame you for Xiao Tai and Ah Yue's matter. ”

Xiaotai and Ah Yue are the queen's drowning dragon and phoenix fetuses, and they are also Zhao Xuan's brothers and sisters.

"Good. ”

After a long silence, the emperor finally responded, and when the queen saw this, she breathed a long sigh of relief, her hand fell slightly, and she closed her eyes as if she was going to sleep.

"Ah Luo!"

The emperor suddenly held the empress's hand tightly and looked at each other beggingly, his voice depressed

"Do you still love me?"

The queen looked at the man in front of her, the years had carved lines on his face, his hair had turned gray, and he no longer had the same high-spirited appearance as before.

Her name is Xi Luo, and she is the pearl of Qingguo Gong's palm.

When she was sixteen years old, in the backyard of the Qingguo Mansion, she fell in love with the emperor at first sight when she was still a girl. Knowing that it was a chance encounter carefully arranged by the other party, he fell deeper and deeper, and insisted on marrying into the palace despite the opposition of his father and brother, becoming the successor, and giving birth to dragon and phoenix twins the following year.

Then Qingguo Gong defeated Beiyan, the Zhenbei Army was famous all over the world, Daliang and Beiyan signed a contract, Daliang no longer had to worry about external troubles, she fell out of favor overnight, and gradually understood that her liking and posterior position were just the bargaining chips of the Ninety-Five.

Disheartened, Yingying Yanyan, who was unwilling to pay attention to the harem, did not wait until his father led troops to defeat the Qiang people in southern Xinjiang. Looking at the Jiaofang Palace, which had been neglected for seven years, it became lively again in an instant, and looking at the emperor's endless rewards, I only felt great irony in my heart.

At the age of twenty-seven, Xiao Tai and Ah Yue drowned in the back garden inexplicably, looking at the two wet and lifeless bodies, she hammered her heart and longed to leave with them. It's just that the father and brother are still there, and they can't kill themselves unfilial no matter what, which makes the situation of the father and brother who are already on the cusp of the storm even more difficult.

In the face of Concubine Shu's teasing, she took the whip and punished her with her own hands, knowing that her father's and brother's difficult situation now was inseparable from Concubine Shu's father's family, and the two dead children were also involved with each other, so she became more and more heavy, until she was stopped by the emperor who rushed over.

"Have you ever liked me?" Xi Luo remembered that she was crying at the time.

Looking at the back of the emperor holding Concubine Shu and leaving, she felt that her heart was gradually cold, and the next day when she heard the news that Concubine Shu was named a concubine, her heart became hard.

Two years later, Qingguo Gong returned to Beijing, and wrote a letter to belittle several civil ministers, in the Manchu Dynasty, only Xin Concubine's father involved both sides, so the emperor demoted the Xin Concubine who was to give birth to the cold palace, and several pleas were unsuccessful, she could only watch her friend kill herself in the cold palace.

The shocking secret that his friend told before his death made Xi Luo give up the idea of raising his friend's child and handed it over to Jia Concubine, who was also born as a military general, to raise it.

In the winter of the same year, the Northern Yan civil strife tore up the contract and harassed the border again, but Qingguo Gong stayed in the capital and kept his door closed, and the prime minister was imprisoned at the end of the month, and the next day the household department Shangshu also followed in, and everyone in the court was in danger for a while.

Looking at the emperor who had been standing in the snow in the courtyard for a long time, Xi Luo thought of Bai Ri's father's explanation.

The Qingguo Mansion needs a prince, and she also needs a prince to stabilize her position.

An hour passed, and looking at the incense burned in front of her, she turned and walked towards the dormitory.

"Aunt Sun, let Your Majesty in. ”

Looking coldly at the bed tent that had been put down, she closed her eyes.

"Luo, I like you. ”

The man whispered in her ear, but Xi Luo felt that he was hallucinating, how could he call himself 'I', how could he possibly like her?

When he was dying, the past flashed back in front of his eyes like a horse watching the lantern.

Now the man asked her urgently if she still loved him, what an ironic scene.

I don't love you, my love is all gone.

But I'm not going to lie, and I'm not going to tell you the truth.

Because only then will my children and family have a way to survive because of your guilt.

Xi Luo slowly closed his eyes and let his consciousness dissipate.